Team information
- Abbr
- LAS
- Sport
- Basketball
- League
- WNBA
- Conference
- Western
- Division
- Western
- Founded
- 1997
- Home market
- Los Angeles, California, USA, United States
The Los Angeles Sparks are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began. Like some other WNBA teams, the Sparks have the distinction of not being affiliated with an NBA counterpart, even though the market is shared with the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers. As of 2019, the Sparks are the last fra